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waste of money. national correspondent steve centanni from our washington bureau with more. what kind of democratic opposition are we seeing? >> democrats say we've had enough benghazi hearings already, most notably the appearance of former secretary of state hillary clinton on capitol hill. congressman adam schiff of california, a member of the house intelligence committee says it makes no sense for democrats to participate in yet another hearing. >> i think it's a colossal waste of time. we've had four bipartisan investigations of this already. i think it's just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources, so i hope the speaker will reconsider, but it looks like he has bowed again to those from the farthest right of his conference. >> other democrats say the latest call for a hearing is a diversion, a subterfuge and a partisan political decision. >> but republicans are eager to

investigate these allegations. what happens now? >> they are calling the newly e-mailed e-mail from ben rhodes a smoking gun and john boehner says he'll establish a select committee to investigate the attack which left four americans dead in 2012. americans say -- republicans say it's time to get some answers. >> they were trying to create an impression to the american people that this wasn't a broader foreign policy failure and totally disconnected from reality on the ground. they were trying to protect the president's re-election. they saw benghazi, i think, box as a threat to his re-election. it wasn't a fog of war problem they had. they created a political smokescreen. >> and senator kelly ayotte out of new hampshire says the truth about a terror attack simply did not fit the white house narrative at the time. arthel. >> steve centanni, thanks. >> one question now being asked is where exactly was the president that night, and what was he doing? you know, during the heated interview with bret baier,

former national security council spokesman tommy vietor revealed the president was in the white house, but he said he was not in the situation room, as the attacks unfolded. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this was like two years ago. we're still talking about -- >> dude, it is the thing that everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. your producers edit scripts. >> now there are reports the president could have been in debate preps that night at the white house residence. is it possible? the white house said he was consulted and in contact about the attack, and coming up a lot more on this in a moment when republican congressman peter king joins us here live to discuss the latest benghazi revelations. >> meanwhile, a day of mourning in ukraine after friday's violence this killed more than 40 people in the city of odessa. most of the dead were pro-russian separatists who died

in a building fire during street battles with pro-kiev demonstrators. leland vittert is streaming live now from donetsk with the latest. hi, leland. >> reporter: hi, and today in odessa even more violence. very important because it shows just how widespread this russian separatist movement is, that some 500 miles southwest of where we are and where this insurgency began. it's now moved to the city and today pro-russian separatists tried to storm the police headquarters where a number of their comrades from friday's violence were being held. they demanded their release, and they got some of them out. we are now hearing that there are pro-ukrainian groups organizing to come take on the pro-russian separatists for what certainly could end up being a repeat of the 40 dead or certainly the violence that we saw there on friday. the ukrainian violence continues to blame the russians for instigating this violence in odessa as they do blame the

russians for continuing to support the insurgency here in the eastern part of the country, and despite the best efforts of the ukrainian military, it's very difficult to see how they are being effective in taking on these pro-russian separatists who are dug in and well-armed. ukrainians seeming outgunned and outmaneuvered. the latest numbers here in eastern ukraine. ten days into their operation against the pro-russian separatists. remember, yesterday, they moved armored personnel careers into one yard and they have taken back three buildings in the last ten days. they have now taken at least 20 days over in the same ten days. to give you another number to keep in mind, a lot of talk has been given about the geopolitical structure of this cris crisis, the united states supporting the ukrainians and russians supporting the pro-russian separatists.

the russians currently have 40,000 troops on the border with ukraine, and the russian government has said that they are willing to use those troops, if necessary. here in eastern ukraine, military analysts say that the ukrainian government has somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 battle-ready troops that the russians decided to invade. back to you. >> a lopsided number. >> leland, when you talk about the pro-russian separatists, who comprise this group? who comprises this group? >> reporter: well, they are a motley crew, and they don't like to talk very much. the best you can tell their leadership is people who have soviet military experience, some fought in afghanistan. most claim to be ethnic ukrainians or at least from this part. some say they have come from other parts of ukraine here, and then you have a lot of folks who are villagers who feel much more aligned with russia than they do with the ukrainian government back in kiev who they say is nothing more than folks who have taken power illegitimately and

look to russia. it's a very poor part of the country over here, a lot of miners and a lot of folks who work very hard for a living and think kiev is out of touch and will have a much better lot with moscow there. how much the russian government is supporting them in terms of sending weapons verse advisers, that's up for debate. it's hard to get hard facts but they certainly look to mother russia for their protection. a number of russian flags flying at the choibts and obviously over the buildings that they have taken speaks to that for sure where their loyalties lie. >> thank you very much, leland vittert. >> more here on the developing crisis in ukraine is former u.n. ambassador to the united nations john bolton. senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and fox news contributor. you've seen that the prime minister said that russia is waging, quote, a real war. are we treating it that way? >> i don't think we're treating it nearly seriously enough. you can see from these incidents

the use by the ukrainian government of their security forces to take back some of the positions that the separatists have held in eastern ukraine. the breaking out of very, very serious strife in odessa be an important port city, well away from the eastern part of ukraine, i might add. i think that -- that the sanctions that we've employed to try to deter the russians have obviously failed, and it's not at all clear that the president or the secretary of state are giving this issue enough of their time and attention. i think the president's recent meeting with german chancellor angela merkel produced almost nothing in terms of closer allied agreement. i think putin has had the high cards. he still has them. >> so putin basically has a green light? >> well, he has an implicit green light. he doesn't think that the sanctions that have been imposed so far are enough to slow him down. he doesn't see any concerted effort by the west to come to the ukraine interim government's defense, and while i think his

objective fundamentally is to either delegitimize the upcoming presidential elections later this month or if he could win th them, he's also got a plan "b" and it looks like that may be more what is happening which is partitioning the country again, as in crimea, stirring up opposition in the eastern and southern parts and taking those parts into russia. >> you talk about a concerted effort by the west to help ukraine and calling for that. there's a bill calling for $100 million in direct aid. sending mres, not sending any lethal weapon, not arming the ukrainians. should we arm them? >> well, i think we should, but i think that and the paltry amount of financial aid we're talking about, really, it amounts to nickels and dimes. when you look at the economic leverage that russia holds over ukraine because of the already existing debts to russia for oil and gas supplies and the threat that russia can cut off those

pipelines at any point. i mean, we need to be serious in washington and in the west generally. do we care whether an aggressive nation uses military force to change international borders on the continent of europe, or do we just not care about it? you know, even today in the "washington post," the "washington post" cartoonist drew a cartoon that expresses the view that maybe we're not taking this seriously enough. i have to say when the "washington post" cartoonist wakes up, we're in deep trouble. >> this seems to echo the yom kippur war in 1973 when president nixon armed israel. let's take a look at that. this is what the nixon foundation says. the president recognized that the only way to recognize the crisis and push out communist influence was to provide american arms for the israelis in order to defeat russian arms. nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. he says you get this stuff to israel now, now. why doesn't the current president say get that stuff to ukraine. now?

>> because i don't think the current president understands the international power of politics that are involved here, and that's what it is, moc politique is what the germans would say, language it a they would understand and so do the russians. we're engaged in a war of rhetoric. russians and ukrainians are becoming very close of becoming engaged in a real military conflict, and it's like we're on a different planet. >> quickly, your prediction? >> well, i think putin doesn't see any obstacles to continuing the pressure. i think he believes he can destabilize these upcoming elections and maybe he can get more. >> all right. those elections may 25th. ambassador boltedon, always good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you, eric. >> sinn fein leader gerry adams may be released from jail today according to multiple reports. police say on wednesday police arrested the 65-year-old adams on wednesday to question him over allegations that he was the irish republican army's belfast

commander in 1972 and ordered the killing of a belfast mother of ten. police sources are saying authorities would also send a file of evidence for potential charges to british prosecutors. adams denying the allegations. >> coming up, five people have been found dead inside a cabin in pennsylvania, and we'll tell you about what authorities warn is the suspected cause, and it's something they say we should all be aware of in our homes. what to look out for coming up. >> also, the first case of the potentially deadly virus reaching america's shores. the latest in a live report live ahead. >> it's not -- it does not mean that there's any epidemic on the horizon or that it will spread, largely in the u.s. [ male announcer ] hands were made for playing.

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>> reporter: the centers for disease control says this particular case has a very low risk of spreading to the general public, and experts say mers spreads through prolonged close contact so maybe a family member in the same household but not necessarily in a plane or on a bus. the cdc is in the process of contacting passengers who may have been in contact with the patient to advise them on any necessary precautions. >> that's right kind of comforting, thanks so much. and on 12 more minutes, more on this. the doctors will be discussing mers, "sunday house call" at the bo bottom of the house. >> thinking the very thing, thinking it won't become a big pandemic. looking forward to what the doctor say about it. >> they will explain. >> a growing chorus of what happened at the white house in the hours after the benghazi attack. republican lawmakers are pushing for answers, but democrats want nothing to do with it. congressman peter king joins us. that's still ahead. >> we've got four dead

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fellow congressman schiff calling for the boycott of the appearance of fellow democrats. >> i think he's wrong here. if the democrats refuse to take part i think the american people will conclude quite rightly that they have something to hide, that they cannot defend the administration, and to me this will be a duly constituted committee by the speaker of the house of representatives, and for them to refuse to take part in it, this would be terribly air gant and show that they are not taking this issue seriously and mostly it's going to show that they are afraid to confront the issues when the public is watching. they would prefer to have it done in the situation room at the white house maybe but not in the light of public debate, public hearings and a committee which is focused entirely on benghazi. this is overdue and i give the speaker -- i give john boehner tremendous credit for constituting this committee and for the democrats to boycott

would be a terrible mistake, and wrong. >> meanwhile, what question, congressman, do you most want answered? >> well, we've still not found out what happened. this is a very basic questions is where was the president that night? i mean, this was an attack on americans. americans are being killed, and almost two years later we still don't know where the president is. i mean, this is to me, it's just unbelievable, that a situation like that can exist. also, the full extent of the white house involvement, the state department involvement, the cia involvement. i want to know where was general betrays. he was director of the cia, and he was the one who came before our committee on september 12th, i guess it was, and we asked him these talking points, and when the talking points came out and later on we saw the e-mails, general betrays was not even involved in the preparation of these talking points. they were prepared by michael morrell who is the number two. i don't know where he got the authority to do it or why he did it. my dealings with general betrays

is he was a micromanager and why he gave that responsibility up to morrell and when they were finally presented to betrauz at the end general betrays said this is not what congress was looking for and was going to sign off them anyway. real questions. how did morrell get involved? why was betrays out of it? was the administration aware or was betrays aware of the fact that he had the sandal hanging over him in afghanistan? why did morrell deal with ben rhodes in the white house and with hillary clinton's top person in the state department? why did they go into person laser on? >> many questions -- >> a real issue. >> many questions you have. you mentioned something. i want to get back to it for the last 30 second with you this morning. >> sure. >> what is the inference if the president was not in the situation room that night? >> i think probably the one inference i would draw from that is that the president did not consider it significant enough. we do know the next day he flew off to las vegas. to me if you're the commander in

chief and americans are under fire it's your obligation to be there and see what happens and not to have your staff put together a story that this was the result of the video. the president should say where he was, in the situation room, the oval office. we understand he only spoke once to secretary panetta and once to general dempsey, the people in charge, so to me it shows a lack of responsibility and a lack of carrying out his duties as commander in chief which is the most important power any president has. >> congressman king, have to leave it there. thank you very much. >> thank you, arthel. >> fox news digs deeper into the benghazi attack. fox news reporting, what time tonight, 9:00 p.m., thank you. couldn't see the monitor, eastern time. we'll be back in a moment. i bought a car, over and tells you, and you're like. a good deal or not. looking at truecar.com. there's no buyer's remorse.

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i'm arthel neville. time now for "sunday house call. >> and i'm eric shawn. joining us is dr. david samadi. >> and dr. marc siegel live from dallas, professor of medicine at nyu's langone medical center and also author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code in sickness and health." >> doctors, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> and marc down in there. >> a big deal in big "d." >> good to see you. >> we'll begin today with a frighteninging frightening medical announcemen